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Charles Schwab To Launch Spot Bitcoin Trading For Retail Clients

Charles Schwab To Launch Spot Bitcoin Trading For Retail Clients

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Micah Zimmerman via Bitcoin Magazine, Charles Schwab announced further details and plans in their attempt to launch direct spot bitcoin trading through its new platform, Schwab Crypto™, signaling a major step by one of the country’s largest brokerage firms into the digital asset market.  The feature will roll out in phases over the coming weeks and will allow retail clients to buy and sell bitcoin and ethereum through existing Schwab platforms, the bank said.  The move gives millions of Schwab clients the ability to trade bitcoin alongside traditional holdings such as stocks, ETFs, and mutual funds. Clients will access Schwab Crypto through Charles Schwab Premier Bank, SSB, which will act as custodian for the digital assets.  Blockchain infrastructure provider Paxos will handle sub-custody and trade execution under a federally regulated trust structure. “Clients want to conduct more of their financial lives at Schwab,” said Jonathan Craig, Head of Retail Investing. “With Schwab Crypto, they can trade digital assets within their existing accounts while drawing on the service, research, and tools they rely on.” At launch, Schwab Crypto will …

Should my enterprise AI agent do that? NanoClaw and Vercel launch easier agentic policy setting and approval dialogs across 15 messaging apps

Should my enterprise AI agent do that? NanoClaw and Vercel launch easier agentic policy setting and approval dialogs across 15 messaging apps

Published by skeptic

For the past year, early adopters of autonomous AI agents have been forced to play a murky game of chance: keep the agent in a useless sandbox or give it the keys to the kingdom and hope it doesn’t hallucinate a catastrophic “delete all” command. To unlock the true utility of an agent—scheduling meetings, triaging emails, or managing cloud infrastructure—users have had to grant these models raw API keys and broad permissions, raising the risk of their systems being disrupted by an accidental agent mistake. That tradeoff ends today. The creators of the open source sandboxed NanoClaw agent framework — now known under their new private startup named NanoCo — have announced a landmark partnership with Vercel and OneCLI to introduce a standardized, infrastructure-level approval system. By integrating Vercel’s Chat SDK and OneCLI’s open source credentials vault, NanoClaw 2.0 ensures that no sensitive action occurs without explicit human consent, delivered natively through the messaging apps where users already live. The specific use cases that stand to benefit most are those involving high-consequence “write” actions. That …

Blue Origin’s third New Glenn launch faces key reuse test in rivalry with SpaceX

Blue Origin’s third New Glenn launch faces key reuse test in rivalry with SpaceX

Published by Sam Flores

April 16 : Blue Origin is set to launch its third New Glenn mission on Friday, carrying AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 satellite to low-Earth orbit in a flight that marks a pivotal step for the Jeff Bezos-led company’s ambitions. The mission is critical in proving New Glenn, a 29-story heavy-lift rocket, can compete with Elon Musk’s SpaceX, by demonstrating reliable booster reuse, a capability that has underpinned Falcon 9’s dominance. “The successful flight of New Glenn-3 would end SpaceX’s nine-year monopoly on orbital launch vehicle reusability, marking a historic shift toward a competitive, multi-player market,” said Micah Walter-Range, president of space consulting firm Caelus Partners. The mission is scheduled for a launch window between 6:45 a.m. and 12:19 p.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Following a series of delays earlier this month, the mission comes amid a surge of activity in the space sector, including a successful NASA Artemis II lunar flyby. The rocket’s booster, “Never Tell Me the Odds,” previously flew on the NG-2 mission in November and was recovered, setting up this week’s …

Forbes expands into retail with Wine Club launch

Forbes expands into retail with Wine Club launch

Published by Sam Flores

Forbes Wine imagery. Picture: Forbes Forbes is making its “first foray” into having a fully owned-and-operated e-commerce site with the launch of a dedicated wine section and shop. Forbes Wine will launch this year with more relevant content to support a subscription-based quarterly wine club and online shop plus a reviews and ratings programme. The business-focused newsbrand has seen a significant drop in traffic over the past year, largely as a result of Google’s AI summaries at the top of search results often stopping users from clicking through to publisher websites. Forbes CEO Sherry Phillips told Press Gazette in November the publisher was instead focusing on “getting back to those core communities and those businesses and our editorial journalism that we take pride in and protect. And so how do we look at that in new revenue models?” Echoing this idea, senior vice president of consumer revenue and growth Emily Jackson told Press Gazette: “We know that this is not a scale game anymore. What we need is deeper relationships with those audiences.” Jackson said …

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau’s romance in photos: from Parisian hard launch to Bieberchella

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau’s romance in photos: from Parisian hard launch to Bieberchella

Published by Daniella Wilson

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau’s romance has blossomed this past year. The two were recently spotted enjoying the Coachella music festival together, as they walked hand-in-hand to watch artists like Justin Bieber perform. Although their relationship was once private and only a rumor, the two have since publicly shared a plethora of adorable behind the scenes pictures that showcase their strong bond. We’ve delved into their sweet love ties below. Relationship timeline © Instagram The first public sighting of the duo together was when they were spotted enjoying a walk in Montreal’s Mount Royal Park with Katy’s dog on July 28, 2025, and then they enjoyed an intimate dinner together that night. Just two days later, Justin attended Katy’s concert in the same city and had a blast singing along to the lyrics of “Firework.” On October 11, the duo were spotted displaying PDA as they enjoyed a relaxing yacht trip sailing around Santa Barbara. © Instagram Only three days after the pictures of the two kissing came out, Katy seemingly confirmed the rumors during her …

iPhone Fold Production Pushed Back, But Fall 2026 Launch Still on Track

iPhone Fold Production Pushed Back, But Fall 2026 Launch Still on Track

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Production on the iPhone Fold is behind schedule, but the device is still slated to launch in fall 2026, reports DigiTimes. The site says that production has been pushed back by “roughly one to two months,” but Apple has not communicated any launch delays to suppliers. Apple is still planning for a 2026 launch, which suggests a tighter production schedule. Apple planned to begin ‌iPhone Fold‌ mass production in June 2026, but mass production has now slipped to early August. Some rumors have suggested that Apple is having more manufacturing problems than expected with the Engineering Validation Test phase that the ‌iPhone Fold‌ is in right now, but other rumors suggest that won’t lead to delays. Last week, Japanese site Nikkei said that the engineering delays could cause Apple to delay the launch of the ‌iPhone Fold‌ until 2027, but Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman said the ‌iPhone Fold‌ remains on track to launch “around the same time” or “soon after” the iPhone 18 Pro models in September 2026. DigiTimes‘ report reconciles the two separate launch timing …

Apple Maps Ads Move Closer to Launch With iOS 26.5 Beta 2

Apple Maps Ads Move Closer to Launch With iOS 26.5 Beta 2

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With the second beta of iOS 26.5, Apple is continuing to prepare for ads in the Apple Maps app. There’s a new splash screen in the app that says it will display ads based on approximate location, current search terms, or a view of the map when searching. Ads will also be shown in the “Suggested Places” section that was added in the first beta. Apple says that advertising information is not linked to an Apple Account to preserve user privacy, so ads viewed and interacted with will not be associated with an Apple Account. Data is not collected or stored by Apple and not shared with third parties, according to Apple. Signs of ads in the Maps app were spotted in the first beta, but iOS 26.5 testers could start seeing ads with the second beta. It’s not yet clear if Apple has just implemented the splash screen, or if ads are going to begin showing up in the near future. Apple announced plans to introduce ads for the Maps app back in March, …

Much-loved British sweet treat to finally launch in US after shoutout from Olivia Rodrigo

Much-loved British sweet treat to finally launch in US after shoutout from Olivia Rodrigo

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Colin the Caterpillar, the British national treasure that has been a staple sweet treat at UK birthday parties since 1990, will arrive in the US at long last. Candies based on the iconic caterpillar-shaped character will be sold across nationwide Target stores as British grocery store M&S continues its partnership with the retailer. For his U.S. debut, Colin will be sold in three gummy varieties: classic fruit-flavored sweets, tangy sours and soft, foam-style treats. The cheeky character is one of the much-loved cult items from popular retailer M&S, and he has acquired an A-list following in the process, with stars like Olivia Rodrigo, Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry all said to be fans. Singer Rodrigo gave a shoutout to Colin while onstage at the …

Western media is blowing Royal Enfield’s electric motorcycle launch

Western media is blowing Royal Enfield’s electric motorcycle launch

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There’s a strange pattern emerging in Western coverage of Royal Enfield’s upcoming electric motorcycle, the Flying Flea C6. And if you’ve been following the story closely, it’s getting harder to ignore. First, it was the range claims. When Royal Enfield finally dropped the full specs last week, I seemed to be one of the only voices raising an eyebrow at what looked like an extremely optimistic range figure for such a small, lightweight urban electric motorcycle. And I shouldn’t have been the only one, since it was simply a matter of basic math and a bare minimum of experience with similar bikes that could have told anyone that Royal Enfield’s range ratings were twice as high as they should have been for real-world operation. Yet much of the Western motorcycle media largely repeated the claims without much scrutiny. Now we’re seeing the same thing happen again, this time with the revealing of the bike’s sticker price and claims of ‘astonishing’ pricing. Advertisement – scroll for more content The bike launched last week in its domestic …

XChat to launch on iPhone and iPad

XChat to launch on iPhone and iPad

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The platform formerly known as Twitter is learning new tricks. X is looking to expand its reach by launching XChat, a standalone messaging app promising end-to-end encryption, no ads and no tracking, at least according to the Apple press release. This Tweet is currently unavailable. It might be loading or has been removed. In addition to the traditional text-based messages already offered by X, XChat promises to offer both audio and video calling, as well as the ability to send documents, create group chats, and edit or delete your sent messages. If the screenshots shared by X are accurate, the interface is minimalistic, emphasizing active chats in “a private, focused space built for conversation,” according to Apple’s press release. Despite the claims of “privacy” and “end-to-end” encryption, some X users are pointing out what they perceive to be a contradiction in the app’s privacy policy. How is it, they’re asking, that an app that cares about user privacy also links so much personal information, from your location and contact list to your search history and …